World Future Society

The World Future Society "is a nonprofit, nonpartisan scientific and educational association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. The Society was founded in 1966 and is chartered as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Washington, D.C., U.S.A."

People
Accessed September 2007:

Directors

 * Arnold Brown (chairman), Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc.
 * Marvin J. Cetron, president, Forecasting International Ltd.
 * Edward Cornish, founder and former president of the World Future Society
 * Hugues de Jouvenel, executive director, Association Internationale Futuribles, Paris, France
 * John Gottsman, president, The Clarity Group
 * William E. Halal, professor of management science, The George Washington University
 * Donna Heivilin, former director, Applied Research and Methods, U.S. General Accounting Office
 * Barbara Marx Hubbard, president, The Foundation for Conscious Evolution
 * Kenneth W. Hunter, director of professional programs, Institute for Global Chinese Affairs, University of Maryland
 * Nat Irvin II, president and CEO. FutureFocus 2020, Bacock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University
 * Eleonora Barbieri Masini, chair, executive council, World Futures Studies Federation, Rome, Italy
 * Jay McIntosh, Americas director of consumer products, Ernst & Young
 * Robert S. McNamara, former president, World Bank; former U.S. Secretary of Defense
 * John Naisbitt, trend analyst and author
 * Maurice F. Strong, secretary general, U.N. Conference on Environment and Development

Global Advisory Council

 * Raja Ikram Azam, director, Pakistan Futuristics Foundation
 * Raj Bawa, president, Bawa Biotechnology Consulting, and advisor and patent agent, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 * Adolfo Castilla, Spanish economist and communications professor
 * Arthur C. Clarke, science and science fiction writer, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, based in Sri Lanka
 * Harlan Cleveland, president, World Academy of Art and Science
 * Yehezkel Dror, professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * Peter Hayward, program director, Strategic Foresight Program, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
 * Sohail Inayatullah, professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan
 * Graham May, senior lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom
 * Michael Michaelis, president, Partners In Enterprise, Inc.
 * Julio Millan, president, Banco de Tecnologias S.A. de C.V. in Mexico City
 * Joergen Orstroem Moeler, visiting senior research fellow, ISEAS, Singapore
 * Burt Nanus, author and professor emeritus of management, University of Southern California
 * John L. Petersen, president, The Arlington Institute
 * Sandra L. Postel, director, Global Water Policy Project
 * Robert Salmon, vice president, L'Oreal Corporation, Paris
 * Alvin Toffler, author
 * Heidi Toffler, author

Officers

 * Timothy C. Mack, president
 * Susan Echard, vice president membership, conference operations
 * Kenneth W. Hunter, treasurer
 * Kenneth W. Harris, secretary

Contact

 * Web: http://www.wfs.org

Related Sourcewatch

 * "Other major U.S. futurist organizations include Arlington Institute, Association of Professional Futurists, Global Business Network, Institute for Alternative Futures (where Robert Olson, above, is a senior fellow), and the Woodrow Wilson Center's Foresight and Governance Project (where David Rejeski, above, is director)."
 * Richard Lamb - member